One thing I almost never do is stitch on my scrapbook pages. I bought a small sewing machine for use with paper many moons ago, but I seem to be mostly incapable of stitching in a straight line with it! Hand sewing is always a possibility, and something I have done occasionally, but it's really time consuming, so it doesn't happen. However, the challenge this week on Shimelle's blog is to stitch on your page, so it was a good prompt to give it a go!
When thinking about incorporating the sewing, I wanted to create something a bit pretty and girly, and I knew I definitely wanted to use a black and white photo. Next month it will be our 10th wedding anniversary, but I haven't really scrapbooked many of our wedding photos. Our photographer gave us a lovely mix of colour and black and white photos, so I had a look through those to see if anything grabbed me. This was one of my favourite photos of the day - me arriving at the church with my dad. I didn't want to get too far from our wedding colours - navy blue and bright, sunflower yellow, with a bit of gold thrown in, so I had a rummage through my scraps to see what I could find - I think the muted yellow and the pale greeny-blues work pretty well.
I started by building the photo stack and then ran this through the sewing maching, a couple of times in each place, before sticking it to the background, just in case it all went completely wrong! The papers are a mix of Simple Stories, Basic Grey and My Mind's Eye, the gold script vellum has been in my stash for years. I decided to add a dash of pink, just to lighten the colours slightly. The embellishments are a mix of Simple Stories, Shimelle and Cocoa Vanilla Studio and, of course, the gold splatters are Heidi Swapp Gold Colour Shine.
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